Friday, February 17, 2006

Mongolia | Töv Aimag | Tonyukuk Monuments

These stelae, located north of Nailakh at N47º42.308 / E107º28.448, date from 726 A.D, during the reign of the Kök Türk. They are covering with inscriptions written by Tonyukuk, who from 682 to 721 was an adviser to the Turkish khans. These inscriptions are among the oldest known examples of written Turkish language.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's wrong.Mongolian(mongol)language.

Feng said...

Mongolian ?!! So funny.

Anonymous said...

Absolutely Turkish. And can be easly understandable by turks even today.

Anonymous said...

These are very famous inscriptions and belongs to the oldest Turkic written language time, in the time of The Kok Turks Empire that is great historical Turkic State...

Türk Bitig said...

Sure Turkish, here is its text

http://orhunyazitlari.appspot.com/tonyukuk.html

Türk Bitig said...

It's Turkish, this is the text: http://orhunyazitlari.appspot.com/tonyukuk.html